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Recent Examples of latecomer
Iheanachor is a former high school hooper and latecomer to football.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
The theory of probability was a latecomer in the history of math.
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Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
2 Apr. 2026
Critics who had long compared the market to a Ponzi scheme, in which early investors profited from latecomers, basked in schadenfreude.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
DoorDash was a latecomer to some of the affected markets.
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ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for latecomer
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
The theory of probability was a latecomer in the history of math.
—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
2 Apr. 2026
Critics who had long compared the market to a Ponzi scheme, in which early investors profited from latecomers, basked in schadenfreude.
—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
DoorDash was a latecomer to some of the affected markets.
—
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for latecomer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
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On the first day of the new quarter, investors rotated out of many of this year’s biggest winners — including AI infrastructure stocks — and into some of the market’s biggest laggards.
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By the time the laggards begin, that gap may be categorical rather than incremental.
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Duckett was waiting for the last bus of the day at Port Authority, watching as stragglers headed to the casino and the janitor cleaned up for the night, when the pressure hit a breaking point.
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However, there often are a few stragglers that will need the energy your feeders provide to continue their journey.
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Sale prices currently start from $579 per person, but there’s limited availability due to the size of the ships, so don’t be a slowpoke!
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Instead, the problem is that these slowpokes haven’t been nearly as efficient.
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
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Housing market suffers historic reversion to the mean Formerly sizzling metro areas have gone cold, and the unsexy plodders are back in vogue.
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As for any ribbing that his head coach gives him for being an old plodder back, Hammond laughed it off.
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Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.
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That’s because it’s built to travel on roadways and bike lanes, leaving its fellow sidewalk crawlers in the dust.
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This may yield additional, creepier, and crawler results.
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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